24092020

Another birthday come and go. I wish I could say I did something special, or experienced some kind of revelation of sorts, but it just passed like any other day, to be honest. Just another day in my life. Every year I feel the same kind of sadness, only each time it feels a little more acute than the year before. I guess that’s just the nature of these things. They accumulate silently, until one day you just discover it’s all too much, all at once. I had a call tonight with some old friends from school. It was good hearing from them again, and in a few weeks, they plan on coming over to visit. I’m looking forward to seeing them.

I spent the afternoon working on some more visual effects for the observatory. I got the pulse looking basically how I want it to look I think, although I still have to figure out whether I want the FoV effect enabled or not. I think it definitely achieves the level of abstraction I want, but I’m also wary about it making the space a bit too abstract, to the point of illegibility. I’m gonna continue working with it. I hope I can reach a suitable resolution by the end of the weekend.